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Message-ID: <501C12A0.9000108@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:04:16 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: openvswitch world writable directories (CVE-2012-3449)

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On 08/03/2012 12:04 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On jeu., 2012-08-02 at 13:08 -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> Andreas Beckmann debian@...ckmann.de reports:
>> 
>> openvswitch-pki creates the following world writable directories 
>> during installation:
>> 
> […]
> 
>> Please use CVE-2012-3449 for this issue.
> 
> I'm unsure if you want to allocate CVEs for all this kind of
> issues, but Andreas is currently reporting a bunch of bugs for
> those. See:

If a security boundary is crossed then yup. E.g. you can monkey with
the programs log files/config/etc. (cover up attacks/etc.) or possibly
crash the program/cause a dos (forcing it to append/process huge
files, etc.). Alternatively you can use the directory to stash files
(and typically the admin only expects /tmp/, /var/tmp/) and so on.

> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683649 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683647
> 
> and I guess there might be more to come since it's the result of 
> piuparts tests run against the whole archive.

Basically it's a lot like /tmp/ file creation issues. They are low
level, rarely fatal, but they are security issues that need to be
addressed. I'll do separate emails for them to make tracking easier.

> Regards,
> 


- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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